Carderoo was one of 8 lucky companies, chosen from 72 who applied, to pitch at the Microsoft BizSpark summit on Monday 28th September 2009 at their Victoria HQ.

The BizSpark (@BizSpark) program offers support and services to emerging technology companies. Success stories like Huddle began on BizSpark before being put on Microsoft’s Startup Accelerator Program.

There were some amazing speakers throughout the day, incluing talks with “Dragon” James Caan, Moo’s Richard Moross and WAYN’s Jerome Touze. The best line of the day came from Richard Moross who said "It's better to have a hole in your team than an asshole in your team".

TechCrunch Europe editor Mike Butcher (@mikebutcher) hosted the pitches. Rob and Holly spent several hours in the afternoon cutting the pitch down from 12 slides and 7 minutes long to 6 slides in just under 3 minutes. Rob was nervous and spoke about Carderoo enthusiastically to the 200 folk who were in the audience and handled the questions as they came his way. The winner on the day was Siondo, so congratulations to Christian and team. We received some really interesting feedback after the pitch, which we are sure will make Carderoo much stronger. A great first day out for Carderoo. Thank you Bindi Karia (@bindik) for organising such a great day.